alt Hacker NewsBack in 2009 I remember reading about how dead salmon apparently turns up brain activity in fMRI without proper statistical methods. fMRI studies are something frequently invoked unscientifically and out of context.
Back in 2009 I remember reading about how dead salmon apparently turns up brain activity in fMRI without proper statistical methods. fMRI studies are something frequently invoked unscientifically and out of context.
I think technically there's some statistical correction you apply to the voxels to avoid this. But yea...most hypotheses from fMRI are considered hypotheses until there's some other modality, i.e. electrical recordings, etc that confirm it.
i.e. the well regarded studies, i.e. Kanwisher and the visual processing areas, have follow up studies on primates and surgical volunteers w/ actual electrical activity correlating w/ visual stimuli etc